Robert McRuer

Robert McRuer (born 1966) is an American scholar of disability studies, queer theory, and contemporary literature. He is a professor of English at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he has taught since 1997. McRuer is a leading figure in the development of crip theory, a field that examines the cultural, political, and social intersections of disability and queerness. His formulation in “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” has become widely circulated and influential across multiple academic fields.